Post-supermarket musings
How nice of David to remember my obsession with Brownberry bread. On my second visit to the Publix supermarket I scanned shelf after shelf of prepackaged breads, and no Brownberry. Then I looked away and magically this one loaf, like Brigadoon, appeared.
It looks exactly like a loaf currently being sold in Baltimore supermarkets only without ...
... the "original recipe/back by popular demand" part. I foolishly bought the Baltimore loaf and it tasted like all the other Arnold "healthy" breads -- not dense enough and too sweet.
I took a chance and bought this loaf, and it is indeed the original recipe. Good as ever, as far as I can tell with cold-deadened tastebuds. Brownberry bread does one thing, but does it superbly: It makes great toast. But I'm wondering if it's worth taking loaves back to Baltimore. Maybe I should just get over it. Move on.
I wonder why Arnold thinks only select areas, like central Florida, can appreciate this particular loaf. When I get back I'm going to have to call their PR person and find out. I understand why Yoplait yogurt comes in delicious tropical flavors like passion fruit and mango here but not in Baltimore. I understand why Floridians keep the really great grapefruit and strawberries here for themselves. But I don't understand about the Brownberry bread.
And here's another random thing I don't understand. Why does Kashi, the Seven Whole Grain Company, think that anyone who cares enough about his or her health to buy its Heart to Heart cereal wouldn't look at the ingredients list and know what the third ingredient, evaporated cane juice, really is.
I think I'll go have another piece of toast.
Comments
You have way too much free time.
Posted by: Gailor Large | January 10, 2008 1:47 PM
And when did rice cakes mutate into this unholy beast?
Quaker Barbecue Crispy Mini Chex Rice Cakes -
Rice Flour, Potato Flour, Sunflower Oil with Natural Tocopherols added to Preserve Freshness, Sugar, Salt, Lactose, Tomato Powder, Onion Powder, Yeast Extract, Dextrose, Monohydrate, Garlic Powder, Monosodium Glutamate, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Sodium Diacetate, Silicon Dioxide, Maltodextrin, Spices, Citric Acid, Barley Malt Flour, Paprika Extract, Paprika, Food Starch-Modified, Soybean Oil, Natural Flavor, Mono and Diglycerides, Alpha Tocopherol.
What? No otter placenta or partially hydrogenated goat bile?
Posted by: Owl Meat Jerky | January 10, 2008 2:20 PM
YIPE--I KNEW there was a reason not to like rice cakes!
Posted by: Dottie | January 10, 2008 4:30 PM
Actually, OMJ, you'll find those last two ingredients in the low fat variety.
Posted by: kimmer1850 | January 10, 2008 6:01 PM
Paprika extract???
Posted by: Fairfax | January 11, 2008 11:06 AM
When I moved to Maryland from Central Florida, I immediately noticed a couple of things. First of all, everything is a little more expensive around here. Secondly, you have to go to specialty stores to find a lot of the foods you find in Publix. My parents used to send me home with foods I enjoyed when I'd come to visit.
I truly miss really good fresh strawberries in February and March. They make me want to move back home.
Posted by: Alyssa K | January 11, 2008 11:47 AM
Wait until hurricane season. Sometimes fresh Florida produce just falls from the sky, along with toads.
Posted by: Owl Meat Jerky | January 11, 2008 4:36 PM